About sixty people gathered yesterday afternoon at the Aussonne roundabout to support and encourage the many participants in the freedom convoy leaving for Cahors.
A multitude of tricolor flags, songs, honking by the hundreds, a few blasts of the accelerator from furious bikers, a pinch of yellow vests, policemen at a safe distance to watch out for the grain in the event of an uncontrolled skid… Yesterday, in early afternoon, the roundabout of Aussonne, the roundabout of grievances, which has already seen many others between yellow vests and demonstrations of farmers, took on the air of the Champs-Elysées one evening of French victory in the football World Cup.
Except to believe the many banners and signs held by feverish hands, the pattern was less futile. Everywhere, the word freedom was inscribed in golden letters. It was also in every mouth. Coming from Montauban and its outskirts and from Albi in particular, they were about sixty waiting in a palpable euphoria for the passage of the convoy of freedom. The convoy.
“We are neither anti-Semitic nor far-right, we are normal people…”
Here, the plumitif is not necessarily welcome. After a few refusals in which a certain aggressiveness oozes, some agree to express themselves. “I came from Albi to support this movement, Françoise tells us, tricolor flag floating in a slingshot wind. It is unique. It is present throughout Europe and Canada. We are claiming our homeland: freedom , equality, fraternity. But don’t say we’re anti-Semitic or far-right, we’re normal people…”
When asked if she is antivax, Valérie loses her temper again. “I’m not antivax but anti-pass. These are two totally different things. I’m not particularly pro vaccine, but I got vaccinated…”
Here it is. The arrival of the famous convoy from the ring road unleashed passions. A bit as if M’Bappé had planted the winning goal. Cars, vans, lots of motorhomes, the procession is impressive, noisy and colorful.
Some quidams find themselves caught in the trap like this driver of a vehicle from Grand Montauban.
Except for a few furtive handshakes, the convoy does not stop. He is expected in Cahors and there is still a long way to go from here to Paris then Brussels. Some go back pumped up. “We’re fed up with everything, rising prices, the health pass and totalitarianism. We lived in freedom until Macron, but now it’s even worse than three years ago…”
At the exit of Montauban, the gendarmerie will announce a procession of 185 “rolling means” including around thirty motorhomes.
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